Hi javanew:

That depends on what you are trying to accomplish.  EJBs are typically
used for enterprise applications (both web or otherwise) using a
database backend.  You need to use an application server (such as
JBoss, WebSphere, WebLogic, etc.) to develop such applications.

There are also aternatives to using EJBs such as the Spring framework
(http://www.springframework.org/) which abstracts most of the
development that would be required using EJBs (although the EJB 3.0
specification is designed to simplify the complexity of previous EJB
specifications - see
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-08-2004/jw-0809-ejb.html for more
details).

Please let us know more about your application needs so that we can
provide you with more guidance.

Mike.

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